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Conch eating other snails

Twice now I've caught my conch doing this to my trochus snails.

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I thought it was strange and then when I saw an empty shell where it had occurred I realized what was happening.

Is this normal behavior?
 
Only if the snail was on it way out. That hermit is hovering around looking for any scraps and possibly an upgrade on the shell.

It's amazing how sensitive certain snails are when something is decomposing or even dying. I used to feed my nassarius any freshwater pond snails that I see pop up. As soon as the pond snails would land on the sandbed, the nassarius would pop out and race over to consume them.
 
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